POLITICS

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has summoned officials of the Ministries of Works and Housing and Roads and Highways to appear before it on Friday, June 25, 2021, to answer questions relating to their Ministries or face the full rigours of the law. The two Ministries are to be surcharged …

Legal Practitioner, Tsatsu Tsikata has described as unlawful, government’s directive to a military task force to burn all mining equipment being used for illegal mining or mining that pollutes the environment. He says the justification that persons believed to be engaged in such acts don’t have rights hence their equipment …

      The way and manner the Auditor General Daniel Domelevo was removed from office and also the resignation of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor stained the Akufo-Addo administration in relation to the President’s commitment to fight corruption, a Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampoh has said. …

The Dormaa East MP has filed an urgent question in Parliament asking for the cost of chartered flights used by former President Mahama between 2013 and 2016. Paul Apraku Twum Barimah believes the question to the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will address the current controversy over purchasing a presidential jet. …

The Deputy Minister-designate for Education, Gifty Twum Ampofo, has reportedly rendered an apology to the minority caucus in Parliament over an altercation she had with the Tamale North legislator, Alhassan Suhuyini.   Her name was expunged from the list of deputy ministers approved by parliament last week following disagreements between …

Ghanaian politician, Kennedy Agyapong has stated the two major political parties in Ghana are the reason the country has not been able to improve despite strides made by most sectors. The MP for Assin Central who was addressing the youth at a conference held at the UPSA main auditorium stressed that it …

President Akufo-Addo says he has in the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, a first-class assistant who continues to support him a great deal in the governance of the country. Addressing the chiefs, elders and people of Walewale in the North East Region Tuesday (22 June), as part of his two-day working …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been slapped with a fine of GH¢4,000 by a Wenchi High Court for delaying court proceedings. The Court, presided over by Justice Nawurah, had preferred a GH¢7,000 fine on the petitioner but this was reduced by GH¢3,000 after several pleas from his lawyers. This …

The Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, has applauded the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for seeing to the construction and completion of several projects which had been on the wish list of the chiefs and people of Mamprugu for many years. According …

        A businessman in Kumasi, Mr. Kwaku Amoakoh has stated that the city needs someone who was born and bred in Kumasi and knows every corner to be chosen as the next Metropolitan Chief Executive [MCE].   He explained that, the City do not need someone who will …